The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-08
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ONE person is drowned for evd 329 killed on
land, according to statistics.

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knife by his Sunday school teacheAD r punctual |
attendance and good behavior, Ak tba first |
use the lad made of it was to stab aoman.
WARREN LELAND. JR., recently NIGHT st
Long Branch an Observation-Disclosures
mackerel, weighing forty-nine pound It is
said to be the largest rnackcrcl ever cayht ON
the New jersey coast
AVERMoNTvILLE, Mich, girl tried the eoeri-
ment the other day OF drinking kerosenfor
water, and the result was unsatisfactory In
fact, she almost died, and it took her half a "
TO get right side out again.
ONE ingenious lady of foreign birth has Dr.
duced the theory that the reason that Amer
cans have such good forms is thattheir restlessl
ness and nervousness prevent their being longA
in one position, so that any defeG is not likely
to become fixed.
THE Japanese are courteous fols Last May
the man-of-war Essex rescued I've Japanese
fishermen. In due time the Ministr of Foreign
Affairs sent a letter of gratitude through Min
lister Hubbard to Rear Admiral Chandler and
Commander Jewell.
JACOB BEcKER's cat fell into MS well in
Weyauwega, Wis, and he started own to get
the animal The rope broke and Jeob found
himself swimming with the cat. They both
called loudly for help, but had to Ait nearly
an hour before being rescued.
A YOUNG MAN of Belleville, Ark, hasinvented
a watermelon carrier. The device is veg simple
and inexpensive. consisting of a double,oose of
wire with wooden handle. A melOnof any
size can be carried with it as readily aralise
He has found a ready sale for the contrivace in
the st. Louis market.
JOHN Brown, young man of 81 years, reid
ing on farm with bis mother three miles nosil
of Lapeer, Mich, deliberately put bulls
| through the palm of his hand with a revolver &,
| evade work. He submitted himself to the same
81 other
| hand as q target.
| CHURCH SONG Rev Alex r. Merriam oh.
serves in The american Magazine brings the
various religious denominations most closely
| together in the ideal universal Church. The ole
| Roman forms have bequeathed to the various
liturgies their choicest prayers and praise -thel
| GloriaS, TIE Deums and anthems We uncon
| sclously, In our devotionS, use the unsurpassed
| passages of the Litany and collects and prayers
| of our Episcopal brethren. We sing Wesley'S
| hymns in Calvanistic churches, and many de
| yout Methodist breathes out his faith in the
Evangelical hymn, My Faith Looks Up tc
| Thee" We love to raise our voices to the
words of 81. Bernard and Francis Zavier found
| In our presbyterian hymn books. Lead
| Kindly Light, sings the Catholic Newman
| Nearer, My God, to Thee pleads in song the
| Unitarian Miss Adams; In the Cross of Christ
| Glory, shouts Bowring the Unitarian: "AngelS
| of Jesus, prays the Catholic Faber; ''One
| Sweetly Solemn Thought. sings the Universal
AS THE weather grows warmer, and there is
| little prospect of any protrected cool wave fol
| some time to come, the manner of dressing the
neck is somewhat changed. The linen collar
| gives place TO the chemisette of lawn or EN-
broidery and dainty ruffies of crepe lisse A
| collar that is coollooking at least has above
| the narrow band half-inch wide loops of the
| linen placed at equal distances apart. Through
these loops some bright-colored ribbon is passed
a in Dbc,.c,
| TO match with the ribbons tied at the side. The
| set will cost about Seventy-flve cents. There
| are all kinds of ruffing of plain and lace trim
| med crepe hsse. A very pretty one made OF
crinkled lawn is sold at forty cents yard This
| ruhling will prove to be very cheap at the price
| as it is quite durable and can be worn longer
| than finer ones. The favorite ruching at pres
ent is the fiat fold If the material is thin there
will be several folds, one just showing above the
| other Corded satin, embroidered with pear
| and colored beads and tinsel, is used consid.
| erably.
| WHILE Jacob Leasure tossed uneasily on his
! couch in Bradford, Pa, one night recently, a
| big black spider which had crawed down from
his fort upon the ceiling alighted on his bed
The first thing the spider did was to bite the
| sleeping man on the first finger of the left
hand. Then he crawled up a little higher and
| bit him on the arm After that he left his mark
| on the sleeping mans forehead and ear. He
| had bitten Mr.. Leasure four times but not
| By this time Mr.. Leasures left arm panied him
| so that he awoke. He felt something on bis
face and knew that it was singing him. He
crushed il with his left hand and then called his
| mother. BY the light he saw that the thing
| that had bothered him was a spider. He put on
| his clothes and went ont to see physician who
| advised him to put raw meat over the bites
| His arm then was sore and numb. No serious
| results are anticipated, but Mr.. LeaSure will
hereafter see to it that no spiders are harbored
| in his room.
| THERE is some excitement at Hortonville a
| village twenty-five miles from Indianapolis
over the discovery of pot of gold which was
| buried under the residence of Solomon Hiatt
who is now dead, and who, it has always been
| understood, settled on the farm in an early day
| for the purpose Of finding that very pot. He
| was one of the very earliest settlers, and he
| was told by an old Indian chief that when the
| Indians were living in this part of the new pur.
| chase, twenty five miles due north from Indian.
| apolis, at the head of the Big Dismal. they had
| left heap big money" buried under a stone
| which had tOmahawk and o turkeys foot cut
in it. Hiatt, thinking he might find it. entered
| the land. He found the stone described by the
| Indian chief eight or ten years ago. and i'm few
weeks the pot was found and reburied under his
| own dwelling.
Hiatt lived to be nearly 100 years old, and a
/ few days before his death he told his children
that he knew of something that would make
| them all rich but that he would not tell them
| The pot of money found beneath his house is
supposed 10 DE the tnlng referred to by him. IL
| contained several thousand dollars.
THE brigand season, writes a Janina CORE
spondent Of the Levant Herold, sis at its height
We are consequently confined TO the town, and
| though surrounded by charming country, Obliged
to pass the summer in dusty, disease breeding
streets. Only persons who are VIGOROUSLY not
worth capturing dare travel without a big es-
cort, even In the Immediate neighborhood
There has been some severe fighting on the
Santi Quaranto road, and two troopers have al
ready lost their lives. Indeed, If the authori-
ties do not speedily grapplc with the evil we
shall be in the same wretched plight as last
year Then the brigands actually tried to
snatch Bishop from dozen well-arnled cavalry
men, and were only beaten Off after "a sharp and
bloody struggle. Snch was the bOldness of the
plundering fraternity that bands did not hest.
tate to come down to the very edge of the lake
and seize victims In full view Of the fortress
One unucky woman was bounced upon close to
her village home in the midst of SEQ of peo-
pc, and kept prisoner till ransomed with R7,O0O
The Spectators being unarmed could not assist
her. But ] will not trouble you with a list of
those who have been carried up into the noun
tains. II IL enough to say that the whole dis
trict round about lies at the mercy of the brig
ands."
Col. LAFAYETTE L. DEMING, of the Gorham
Manufacturing Company, was shot at early
Thursday evening in his room at No. West
Twenty-iirst street, New York city. by Mrs FL
len Harvey, professional nurse, aged q years.